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Zoom Info Sessions on December 11th!
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Class of 2022 and 2023 representing POD at the 48th NYC's Village Halloween Parade
After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, SVA PoD is back at the much anticipated NYC’s Village Halloween Parade! Our first-year students worked tirelessly for two weeks to create 16 incredibly creative and beautifully crafted LED costumes with Arduino animation under the guidance of faculty member, Becky Stern, in their Making Studio class. Many from our senior cohort—who missed out the previous year—were able to join in the fun as well.
Announcing the Fall 2021 Lecture Series
We are delighted to announce our Visiting Lecture Series lineup for the Fall 2021 season. (See all of our department guest lecturers here.) Read more below about Raja Schaar, Debbie Chachra, Cameron Tonkinwise, and Lina Srivastava below!
Register For Our 2021 Virtual Open House & Info Sessions
Interested in changing your life with an MFA in Design? Please join us for this year's Products of Design Open House and Information Sessions on November 11th and on December 9th! Attendees will be able to meet faculty, alumni, and current students, see projects, and learn about the courses and fabrication labs. The sessions will be on Zoom, so you can participate from anywhere in the world. There will also be time to answer any Q&As you have!
Watch EI8TH: Our 2021 Thesis Presentations!
On May 14nd, the students of the Class of 2021 presented their Masters Thesis projects at the SVA Theatre—taped without an audience, but safely—and then livestreamed to the world. Enjoy the video in its entirety, with some snapshots of the day below!
Panisa Khunprasert is in the windows of MoMA!
Huge congratulations to Class of 2016 alum Panisa Khunprasert, who is featured in both downtown and midtown windows of the Museum of Modern Art Gift Design Stores! Panisa’s relationship with MoMA began with MFA Products of Design’s annual collaboration with MoMA Wholesale, and the partnership has blossomed ever since. (Panisa’s coasters were the very first product produced as part of that partnership back6 years ago!) Check out some of the snapshots below.
Announcing New Faculty for Fall 2021!
We are thrilled to welcome four amazing new faculty to Products of Design for the Fall 2021 semester!
2021 Core77 Design Awards: Helen Chen Wins in Two Categories!
This year’s Core77 Design Awards were just announced, and Products of Design alum Helen Chen won two awards for one of the projects she created as part of her Masters thesis, Fruiting Bodies: Fungal Futures for Collaborative Survival. The project, Internet of Mycelium was honored with the Student Winner in the Strategy & Research Award category, as well as a Student Runner Up in the Speculative Design Award category. Congratulations Helen!
N-3+Me: Urban Resilience at Human Scale
Regena Paloma Reyes is a service designer, New York City resident, and urban enthusiast. Her thesis, N-3+Me: Urban Resilience at Human Scale, investigates factors that promote adaptability in city-dwellers during times of crisis. Urban communities seem more likely to suffer significant losses in unnatural catastrophes, from infrastructure failure to terror threats due to their high population density. The ensuing collection of research and product design examines how resilience can be at its greatest in urban environments, and how city spaces, diverse populations, and the expansive interpersonal networks that arise therein can be used to create cultures of preparedness at individual, interpersonal, and community scales.
Out From Control: Design Interventions Around Emotional Abuse
Xiaohan Miao's thesis, Out From Control: Design Interventions Around Emotional Abuse, is an in-depth analysis of emotional abuse towards women in relationships. While researching the complexity of emotional abuse, Xiaohan decided to zero in on the healing process from a personal angle—an individual woman’s journey. This body of thesis work proposes solutions to transform the narratives around emotional abuse, raise awareness, validate women's intuition, and takes the form of interventions such as a new social network for victims and the reimagining of self-care through journaling.